You're missing one point - that is the INTENT of Westboro? It isn't benign. They're there to cause harm. They're there specifically to cause people to lose it. Quite frankly, I doubt a jury would convict if someone lost it at a serviceman's funeral and shot the SOBs. The law provides for provocation as a defense.
Just got a year suspension for using the word mentally retarded in class and then arguing with a couple of ignorant classmates who said I could not say the words mentally retarded. In a Human Services class dealing with case management, and the 4th chapter of our textbook is titled, "The Mentally Retarded". Go figure that one out, because I sure fucking can't.
That's because you're mentally retarded! Everyone knows that the PC term is now Republican, and in (4) (8) years it will be Democrat! Don't be such a 'tard.
Here, let me connect the dots for you:
"Free Speech" == "Speech you agree with."
"Hate Speech" == "Speech you disagree with."
Is it just my impression or do people actually think that animals never fight each-other?
Dogs won't fight to the death unless people train them to. Even wolves know when to yield the leadership of the pack to another wolf. People, on the other hand, are the most vicious, dangerous mammals on the planet.
It is when you need to trust the other person to pay you. Or the other person needs to trust you as they're paying you before you credit them etc.
Oh, for goodness sake, if you're that paranoid over $10 in Wii points... just sell them to a friend. Or donate them to a local hospital - there are plenty of hospitals and senior citizen's homes that use Wiis for exrcise.
Historically, the money spent on throttling men through space CANNOT be spent better when it comes to improving technology or your way of life.
Unfortunately, the same can be said about war as a technology accelerant. It's why Hitler was Time magazine's Man of the Year, and almost won the Man of the Century, as the person who had the most impact on the 20th century. War gave us ARPANET which gave us the InnerToobs. War gave us the cold war which gave us the space race which gave us integrated circuits which gave us cpu-on-a-chip and vlsi circuitry and all the other goodness we enjoy today. War gave us the impetus to research ways to treat injuries quickly and effectively and stabilize patients in forward positions, which gave us better techniques to treat trauma. War gave us soldiers who had to be treated, and the budget and will to try to create more effective treatments. War gave us practical radar. War gave us practical ICBMs which gave us satellites. War gave us higher-strength metals.
But as humans, we'd be better off funneling the money into space. Problem is, we'd rather fight.
Goes to show how long it's been since this meme was funny when it gets mangled this badly. "In Soviet Russia, road forks you!"...There is no way to work the current topic into this meme, either.
Bah, pessimist!
In Soviet Russia, mutants fork YOU!
In Soviet Russia, Soviet Russia mutates YOU!
In Soviet Russia, Chernobyl mutates YOU!
In Soviet Russia, is no mutation. Is 5-year plan, which just happens to take a generation in reality.
In Soviet Russia, there is no "Y" chromosome. It is forbidden to ask "Y" about anything - in Soviet Russia, we will tell you when you need to know "Y".
The Fourth Council of Ristorante determined that there is no such thing as "slightly" al dente. It is al dente or not al dente; there is no in-between. The path to damnation is lined with compromise, and we'll have none of that here!
Glory to his name, Ramen.
Just throw it at the wall and see if it sticks - that's how all important decisions are made in politics, marketing (but I repeat myself), religion, the workplace... if you used your noodle, you'd realize that!
They're fun all right. I just ignore the whole "thrust" business, since you inevitably lose speed when you pull back (and it's more fun to make a sharper turn by tilting sharply, then pulling back to reduce thrust, then pivoting the controller into the turn).
Everyone likes the sword game. Just the thing to take out your frustrations on your boss, your sibling, or your co-worker.
Ping pong is a blast with another person, as opposed to an AI opponent.
And the antarcitc site comes with its' own problems, Since it isn't windy, any man-made smog will stay there. You're going to need to burn fuel for the generators, heating, transport, etc., and in cold temperatures you're going to get the water vapor in the exhaust crystalizing, forming ground-level fog. Since it's so calm, it'll just accumulate, then condense on the cold optics. Have fun seeing when your mirror's frosted over with an inch of rime.
It if isn't about black turtle-neck wearing gay Nazis then I'm not interested.
Apple fanboi?
You'll think differently when Apple releases the iLego - Lego blocks that you can customize through the Apple Lego Store.
... and the iMindstorm will knock your socks off! Literally. and fetch you a beer. And a tofu burger. Even if you don't want it... because Apple knows what you want!
Weather channel. Since I leave mine on all the time (unlike the other consoles, the Wii is a power miser, 18 watts peak draw during a game, as opposed to 250 watts), it's quick and easy to get my local weather.
You've never tried the Wii Fit with a snowboarding game, have you?
I've bought over 30 games for it since I bought my console at the end of February. I also finally got around to replacing my old tube tv with a 50" 1920x1080p plasma tv and sound system - not to watch TV, but so that when my friends come over, they can better enjoy playing games. That DVDs look much better is a nice bonus.
Game developers took a while to warm up to the Wii, but now there are tons of titles, and the MotionPlus makes a difference. I expect more games to use it, and even better gameplay, over the next year or two.
Apology? The MP should use his post to fight back and shame his accusers
Shame them? These people have no shame. Otherwise, they wouldn't be doing what they are doing.
Then again, the dinosaurs probably had no shame either.
There's still a big market for copyrighted material that people are willing to pay for - but the writing is on the wall - games already exceed movies in terms of total sales. People only have a certain budget for entertainment, and they're allocating it - and that means less for "old-skool" media such as movies and music.
" Ad revenue on the Web is directly proportional to the size of the audience"
That would only be true if every ad was the same price. Even ads that use different metrics vary inside their own class. Ads that are sold on a PPV (pay per view) vary - so do ads sold on a PPC or PPA (pay per click, pay per action) basis. Then there's the value based on the site.
Just one more example of how the dead-tree crowd still, after almost 2 decades, doesn't get it.
You want to curse the guy because of what he did in Chappaquidick, but I bet it has more to do with his politics. If somebody would just come out and pass legislation to deport every illegal and burn every homosexual, end all environmental regulation, stop Social Security and unemployment insurance, maybe start a few more pointless wars, you'd probably forgive him a lot worse than accidental manslaughter. As long as he said he was a good Christian.
No, it has NOTHING to do with my political views. The fact is that we need to demand better of ALL of our politicians, of every political stripe. If they lie under oath (Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton), then why should we trust them? If they treat the Constitution and other laws of the land as not applying to them (Bush, Nixon), why should we trust them?
Also, I'm an atheist and believe that religion shouldn't have any place in the formulation of public policy, and as a Canadian I am proud that my country supports gay marriage and has a public health plan that covers everyone, that our leaders publicly chided Bush over the invasion of Iraq and told him to go it alone after his veiled threat of "Either you're with us or you're against us", that we have more than 2 parties so we can effectively punish our leaders when they piss us off, and I recycle and think that products like the Swiffer and Hummer should be banned because they're not environmentally friendly.
Almost all your leaders subsequent to Eisenhower have lacked a sense of shame over their hypocrisy. John Kennedy cheated on his wife and lied to the public (Bay of Pigs, false flag ops against Viet Nam), Lyndon Johnson lied to the public and conducted a secret war, Richard Nixon... Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, HMOs, (Ford was never elected president, so we'll skip him), Ronald Reagan help set the stage for both the Savings and Loan crisis and the current bank crisis with massive deregulation and attacked the middle class via Reaganomics, did the weapons for hostages thing, etc, George Bush Sr. continued to chop away at the middle class by continuing Reaganomics, and sold WMDs to Iraq, Bill Clinton lied under oath, and to his wife and family, and the public, and cheated on his wife, over and over, George Bush Junior lied about pretty much everything while trampling over everyone's rights, and completed the squeezing of the middle class into debt hell.
So really, in all those decades, the only elected president who you could say had a developed sense of decency was Jimmy Carter. The rest were politicians first and foremost, a bunch of lying manipulative scoundrels who each are responsible for helping further tarnish the office of the president, to the point that it's so "low-expectation mother-fuckahs" that Sarah "I can see Russia from my porch" Palin is seen by a large portion of the population as a credible candidate.
What is wrong with you people anyway? You could probably do better picking a homeless person at random as your president - they'd be less ambitious, so less likely to steal as much or pass as much along to their homies.
No, the modem init strings set registers that control things like the speaker volume while dialing, maximum timeout, whether to allow both fax and data or data only, etc.
I know very well not to touch porn sites with a 10 foot firewall when at work. It's just not something a smart person does. They'll forgive you for playing solitaire at work. They'll forgive you for Slashdot. They'll even forgive you for Myspace.
somehow I find it hard to believe that last bit. And even if they said they forgive you, they'll never let you forget it. Imagine how it will look to future employers - "We let them go for surfing myspace." Better to pretend you were looking at farmsex.com.
Is watching others have sex instead of having sex with your spouse healthy?
Depends. If he's the village cock-smith, then yes, watching others have sex is definitely healthier from an STD standpoint than letting him do you. Also applies, mutatis mutandis, to men married to women who are the village bicycle.
3% == Citizens who *want* health insurance but are not covered. 86%==Number happy with what they've got
Of course you're happy with what you have dumbass !
Considering that 16% of americans don't have health insurance, the argument could be made the other number is probably off by a similar margin (533%), which would give about 16.23% who are satisfied. Sounds about right.
Where do you get the idea Ted Kennedy liked to drink? I heard his limit was one Bloody Mary-Jo.
Why didn't he call the cops right away? It's because he was FUCKING DRUNK and needed to sober up! He didn't do ANYTHING until after the car was found, with her dead inside. He told his buddies not to tell anyone, went home to bed, got up the next morning, and STILL did nothing. He should have done serious jail time for manslaughter.
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You're missing one point - that is the INTENT of Westboro? It isn't benign. They're there to cause harm. They're there specifically to cause people to lose it. Quite frankly, I doubt a jury would convict if someone lost it at a serviceman's funeral and shot the SOBs. The law provides for provocation as a defense.
That's because you're mentally retarded! Everyone knows that the PC term is now Republican, and in (4) (8) years it will be Democrat! Don't be such a 'tard.
Here, let me connect the dots for you:
"Free Speech" == "Speech you agree with."
"Hate Speech" == "Speech you disagree with."
Taking out the common elements leaves:
"Free" == "agree"
"Hate" == "disagree"
See, it's really that simple.
Dogs won't fight to the death unless people train them to. Even wolves know when to yield the leadership of the pack to another wolf. People, on the other hand, are the most vicious, dangerous mammals on the planet.
Oh, for goodness sake, if you're that paranoid over $10 in Wii points ... just sell them to a friend. Or donate them to a local hospital - there are plenty of hospitals and senior citizen's homes that use Wiis for exrcise.
Unfortunately, the same can be said about war as a technology accelerant. It's why Hitler was Time magazine's Man of the Year, and almost won the Man of the Century, as the person who had the most impact on the 20th century. War gave us ARPANET which gave us the InnerToobs. War gave us the cold war which gave us the space race which gave us integrated circuits which gave us cpu-on-a-chip and vlsi circuitry and all the other goodness we enjoy today. War gave us the impetus to research ways to treat injuries quickly and effectively and stabilize patients in forward positions, which gave us better techniques to treat trauma. War gave us soldiers who had to be treated, and the budget and will to try to create more effective treatments. War gave us practical radar. War gave us practical ICBMs which gave us satellites. War gave us higher-strength metals.
But as humans, we'd be better off funneling the money into space. Problem is, we'd rather fight.
The trade isn't unreliable - you do it through the Wii online store - click on (iirc) "Gift Wii Points" and gift them to the other user.
Bah, pessimist!
In Soviet Russia, mutants fork YOU!
In Soviet Russia, Soviet Russia mutates YOU!
In Soviet Russia, Chernobyl mutates YOU!
In Soviet Russia, is no mutation. Is 5-year plan, which just happens to take a generation in reality.
In Soviet Russia, comrades share Y chromosome with women athletes.
In Soviet Russia, there is no "Y" chromosome. It is forbidden to ask "Y" about anything - in Soviet Russia, we will tell you when you need to know "Y".
Just throw it at the wall and see if it sticks - that's how all important decisions are made in politics, marketing (but I repeat myself), religion, the workplace ... if you used your noodle, you'd realize that!
here you go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(film)
"Who goes there?"
They're fun all right. I just ignore the whole "thrust" business, since you inevitably lose speed when you pull back (and it's more fun to make a sharper turn by tilting sharply, then pulling back to reduce thrust, then pivoting the controller into the turn).
Everyone likes the sword game. Just the thing to take out your frustrations on your boss, your sibling, or your co-worker.
Ping pong is a blast with another person, as opposed to an AI opponent.
Even the bowling is better.
And the antarcitc site comes with its' own problems, Since it isn't windy, any man-made smog will stay there. You're going to need to burn fuel for the generators, heating, transport, etc., and in cold temperatures you're going to get the water vapor in the exhaust crystalizing, forming ground-level fog. Since it's so calm, it'll just accumulate, then condense on the cold optics. Have fun seeing when your mirror's frosted over with an inch of rime.
Apple fanboi?
You'll think differently when Apple releases the iLego - Lego blocks that you can customize through the Apple Lego Store.
You can transfer Wii points to other people. Find someone who wants to download a game, trade the points for cash, and you're not out a penny.
According to some of the articles I read, you'll get a 500 point credit towards wiiware, so nothing lost :-)
Or if I need something more up-to-date, open the wii opera browser and go to the latest official forecast, which is updated quicker.
You've never tried the Wii Fit with a snowboarding game, have you?
I've bought over 30 games for it since I bought my console at the end of February. I also finally got around to replacing my old tube tv with a 50" 1920x1080p plasma tv and sound system - not to watch TV, but so that when my friends come over, they can better enjoy playing games. That DVDs look much better is a nice bonus.
Game developers took a while to warm up to the Wii, but now there are tons of titles, and the MotionPlus makes a difference. I expect more games to use it, and even better gameplay, over the next year or two.
Shame them? These people have no shame. Otherwise, they wouldn't be doing what they are doing.
Then again, the dinosaurs probably had no shame either.
There's still a big market for copyrighted material that people are willing to pay for - but the writing is on the wall - games already exceed movies in terms of total sales. People only have a certain budget for entertainment, and they're allocating it - and that means less for "old-skool" media such as movies and music.
" Ad revenue on the Web is directly proportional to the size of the audience"
That would only be true if every ad was the same price. Even ads that use different metrics vary inside their own class. Ads that are sold on a PPV (pay per view) vary - so do ads sold on a PPC or PPA (pay per click, pay per action) basis. Then there's the value based on the site.
Just one more example of how the dead-tree crowd still, after almost 2 decades, doesn't get it.
No, it has NOTHING to do with my political views. The fact is that we need to demand better of ALL of our politicians, of every political stripe. If they lie under oath (Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton), then why should we trust them? If they treat the Constitution and other laws of the land as not applying to them (Bush, Nixon), why should we trust them?
Also, I'm an atheist and believe that religion shouldn't have any place in the formulation of public policy, and as a Canadian I am proud that my country supports gay marriage and has a public health plan that covers everyone, that our leaders publicly chided Bush over the invasion of Iraq and told him to go it alone after his veiled threat of "Either you're with us or you're against us", that we have more than 2 parties so we can effectively punish our leaders when they piss us off, and I recycle and think that products like the Swiffer and Hummer should be banned because they're not environmentally friendly.
Almost all your leaders subsequent to Eisenhower have lacked a sense of shame over their hypocrisy. John Kennedy cheated on his wife and lied to the public (Bay of Pigs, false flag ops against Viet Nam), Lyndon Johnson lied to the public and conducted a secret war, Richard Nixon ... Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, HMOs, (Ford was never elected president, so we'll skip him), Ronald Reagan help set the stage for both the Savings and Loan crisis and the current bank crisis with massive deregulation and attacked the middle class via Reaganomics, did the weapons for hostages thing, etc, George Bush Sr. continued to chop away at the middle class by continuing Reaganomics, and sold WMDs to Iraq, Bill Clinton lied under oath, and to his wife and family, and the public, and cheated on his wife, over and over, George Bush Junior lied about pretty much everything while trampling over everyone's rights, and completed the squeezing of the middle class into debt hell.
So really, in all those decades, the only elected president who you could say had a developed sense of decency was Jimmy Carter. The rest were politicians first and foremost, a bunch of lying manipulative scoundrels who each are responsible for helping further tarnish the office of the president, to the point that it's so "low-expectation mother-fuckahs" that Sarah "I can see Russia from my porch" Palin is seen by a large portion of the population as a credible candidate.
What is wrong with you people anyway? You could probably do better picking a homeless person at random as your president - they'd be less ambitious, so less likely to steal as much or pass as much along to their homies.
here's a list by make and model.
somehow I find it hard to believe that last bit. And even if they said they forgive you, they'll never let you forget it. Imagine how it will look to future employers - "We let them go for surfing myspace." Better to pretend you were looking at farmsex.com.
Depends. If he's the village cock-smith, then yes, watching others have sex is definitely healthier from an STD standpoint than letting him do you. Also applies, mutatis mutandis, to men married to women who are the village bicycle.
Considering that 16% of americans don't have health insurance, the argument could be made the other number is probably off by a similar margin (533%), which would give about 16.23% who are satisfied. Sounds about right.
Where do you get the idea Ted Kennedy liked to drink? I heard his limit was one Bloody Mary-Jo.
Why didn't he call the cops right away? It's because he was FUCKING DRUNK and needed to sober up! He didn't do ANYTHING until after the car was found, with her dead inside. He told his buddies not to tell anyone, went home to bed, got up the next morning, and STILL did nothing. He should have done serious jail time for manslaughter.